The Politics of Vibration: Music as a Cosmopolitical Practice

The Politics of Vibration by Marcus Boon explores music as a material practice of vibration, highlighting how it constructs a vibrational space of individual and collective transformation. It contributes to a new interdisciplinary field of vibration studies, understanding vibration as a mathematical and physical concept, religious or ontological force, and psychological determinant of subjectivity. Boon argues that music, as a shaping of vibration, needs to be recognized as a cosmopolitical practice, shaping individual music scenes and the ethical choices of participants.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 13 July 2022
Publisher: Duke University Press

Marcus Boon's book "The Politics of Vibration" delves into the role of music as a material practice of vibration. He examines the work of three contemporary musicians - Pandit Pran Nath, Catherine Christer Hennix, and DJ Screw - to explore how music creates a vibrational space that facilitates individual and collective transformation. Boon approaches vibration as a mathematical and physical concept, a religious or ontological force, and a psychological determinant of subjectivity. He argues that music, as a shaping of vibration, should be recognized as a cosmopolitical practice, where the availability of vibration and access to it determine the nature of music within a society and its impact on individuals. This politics of vibration is the hidden ontology of contemporary music, as it shapes individual music scenes and the ethical choices made by participants in these scenes about their way of life.

Weight: 399g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781478018391